Anthony Joshua versus Ike ibeabuchi

[Spicoli]

Still weird to me how lasting the legend/myth of Ibeabuchi as some dominate monster is off 1-2 fights. Ike screwed himself and totally lost his marbles at the first sign of big league success. Physically and mentally. As long as Joshua gets his head out of the clouds and keeps focus in the ring I think he had the composure, skillset and pop to see himself to a win.

[brocktonblockbust]

Now that you guys have mentioned some of those points I tend to agree. I think Masters right that Joshua could handle himself in a dog fight. ike could only hope to turn this into a street fight. There's no way he have boxes Joshua with the reach that AJ has as master has said.

Now as far as what 'spiccoli said it's true that the myth or the legend based off of one or two fights is a bit overblown to say the leastperiod yet those one or two fights were against really top Prime heavyweights and so it's the same situation maybe with Riddick Bowe where is best three fights were against one of the greatest of all time Evander Holyfield. But what else did Bo really do? He never fought Lennox Lewis and he look like crap against Andrew golota

[holmcall]

Prime Ike beats current AJ soundly. Parker would have been a victim of assault and battery against Ike. Remember the Tua fight when Ike showed what he was all about. He could have had it all had he not decided to rape a prostitute. And who in the f--k does that?

[brocktonblockbust]

Prime Ike beats current AJ soundly. Parker would have been a victim of assault and battery against Ike. Remember the Tua fight when Ike showed what he was all about. He could have had it all had he not decided to rape a prostitute. And who in the f--k does that?

Rape a whore? Is that what he did? so how many years did he have to serve for that?

[El Kabong]

Prime Ike beats current AJ soundly. Parker would have been a victim of assault and battery against Ike. Remember the Tua fight when Ike showed what he was all about. He could have had it all had he not decided to rape a prostitute. And who in the f--k does that?

Rape a whore? Is that what he did? so how many years did he have to serve for that?

Well there was that PLUS kidnapping a child who was critically injured in a car accident (Ike was driving) and I believe that the rape of the prostitute also had another kidnapping charge with it. Ike is not a mentally well person and could have been that way all the time OR it could have been CTE or maybe both.


I think Ike Ibeabuchi is tremendously overrated, he had some good fights and with Tua a great fight, but again other fighters from Nigeria with a similar style have shown glimpses of greatness only for them to wind up being fodder for classier heavyweights.


Imagine if you will Samuel Peter a good quality fighter in his own right getting arrested and having his career end after knocking out Taurus Sykes and he was 24(21 KO)-0-0....people would have been saying the exact same things about Sam Peter as they did about Ike... "He could beat anyone" "He's invincible" "He'd demolish the current heavyweights" etc.


Maybe Ike Ibeabuchi was as good as advertised maybe not....I think the guy paid little to no attention to stopping punches with anything other than his face and eventually that would catch up with him. He was bigger than Tua, he was bigger than Byrd, he beat both of those guys, but he NEVER fought a guy like Holyfield or Lewis who were more complete fighters than Tua or Byrd.

[holmcall]

Prime Ike beats current AJ soundly. Parker would have been a victim of assault and battery against Ike. Remember the Tua fight when Ike showed what he was all about. He could have had it all had he not decided to rape a prostitute. And who in the f--k does that?

Rape a whore? Is that what he did? so how many years did he have to serve for that?

Plenty. When you commit a crime in Las Vegas like that, they throw away the key. It's all about setting an example so the tourist can feel safe and continue to lose their money. Or get shot to death by a mass killer. Ike picked the wrong city for his "inappropriate behavior." The "Me Too" movement would have made hash out of ham!

[brocktonblockbust]

Ike really had paranoid schizophrenia

[El Kabong]

Ike really had paranoid schizophrenia

Yeah either that or DavidTuaRepeatedlyPunchedHimInTheHeadFor12Rounds-itus

[holmcall]

Ike really had paranoid schizophrenia

Yes and No